Cover

CONTENTS

PREFACE

CHAPTER 1. Eurocentric History

Eurocentric Diffusionism

The Rise of Europe

The Project

The Historians

Notes

CHAPTER 2. Max Weber: Western Rationality

Rationality

Oriental Despotism

"Only in the West . . . "

Notes

CHAPTER 3. Lynn White, Jr: Inventive Europeans

A Medieval Agricultural Revolution

Technological Inventiveness

Technology, Ecology, Rationality, Religion

Notes

CHAPTER 4. Robert Brenner: The Tunnel of Time

Euro-Marxism

Brenner's Theory

Neo-Weberian Euro-Marxism

Other Views

Notes

CHAPTER 5. Eric L. Jones: The European Miracle

Devices

"The Quality of Europeanness"

Technology

Expansionism

The Free Market Economy

States and Nations

Primitive Africa

Barbarous Asia

Growth Recurring

Notes

CHAPTER 6. Michael Mann: The March of History

"The Leading Edge"

"Rational Restlessness"

Westward Ho!

Notes

CHAPTER 7. John A. Hall: Democratic Europeans

"Imperial China"

"The Land of the Brahmans"

"Islam and Pastoralism"

The Rise of Christian Europe

Notes

CHAPTER 8. Jared Diamond: Euro-Environmentalism

Environmental Determinism

"A Natural Experiment"

Agriculture

Civilization

Europe and China

Notes

CHAPTER 9. David Landes: The Empire Strikes Back

"Warm Winds and Gentle Rain"

A Uniquely Progressive Culture

The Inventors of Invention

Empire

A Summing-Up

Notes

CHAPTER 10. Thirty Reasons Why Europeans Are Better Than Everyone Else (A Checklist)

Notes

CHAPTER 11. The Model

Notes

BIBLIOGRAPHY

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